Antiwork

Two days ago I posted that my manager had said he would approve my raise “when he thought I was ready” to perform my responsibilities without supervision. I was confused because he offered me a title, I accepted, my responsibilities changed, and I hadn't yet seen the raise associated with those changes. I sent him a message explaining that I was “extremely uncomfortable” with his response because it was inconsistent with all the information I'd been given to to that point. Yesterday I went to a company meeting for about an hour. Had my managers needed to say something to me, that would have been a great time. At 10:26PM yesterday, they sent an email which I opened this morning. “Terminated effective immediately.” The reason they gave was “several instances of shop policies and procedures being disregarded,” which is bullshit. I know for a hard fact that I was one…

-TLDR satisfying moment at the bottom- In about an hour, I'll be giving a resignation notice to an unbelievably shitty job that will no longer rob me of my 20s, and tomorrow will be my last day at the company. I almost can't believe that I finally snapped and decided to quit, it feels surreal, and that's honestly precisely why I know I'm making the right decision. Companies always have a way of making people feel trapped and that they can't ever do better and that their labor isn't worth more. Well fuck that. I was offered a job at a smaller company that's going to be paying me almost $15,000 more per year than I make right now, and for the first time ever I will actually have consistent weekends off and fair hours, and no longer will have to miss out and be left behind by my friends…

Hypocrites. We live in an Oligarchy as well. Own up to it. Change it.

My wife and I both put in 40 hours a week, I make 20 dollars an hour she makes 22..I'm 41 and she's 40, we have no savings, no retirement accounts nothing..I don't own my house… She has lifelong kidney issues that she was born with so we have hundreds of thousands of medical debt..we constantly get sent to collections and get wage garnishment notifications etc etc. We can't buy a house because things that look like a fuckin shack cost 600k, I didn't play the game so to speak in that when I bought cars I bought them outright so I basically have no credit. My children are adults and they are constantly moving out and coming back because no one can live on a singular 15 dollar an hour salary. My house is basically madness.. You can just never get ahead and it frankly makes me want to…

I used to have a huge decently well constructed base of negative opinions of the elite, and things surrounding the elite, all combined with information to back them up, and information on how to solve these issues. I seriously cared about the state of society, I seriously wanted to help society. I saw how many of our issues are caused by many very wealthy individuals. Now my beliefs are shifting. As I've cared so much for society, I've given large efforts to improve it. In those efforts I've come to realize that the majority of the issues the American public faces are due to the public itself. Public ignorance. I've spent likely hundreds of hours spending time with people, trying to fix their ignorances. Out of hundreds or maybe thousands of people I've talked to, less than ten made any difference, less than five showed a more complete difference, and…